Did Kamala Harris pull off the biggest speech of her life?
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kamala Harris closed the DNC with a speech that she hopes will sway voters to the Democrats.
The day began with speculation over whether she might be joined on stage by Taylor Swift or Beyoncé.
In the end, Harris took to the stage alone and focused on her upbringing and a pitch to America’s middle class.
The team assemble on the final night of the convention to analyse whether she did enough to win over the undecided.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, in the early hours of Friday morning, |
| 0:07.6 | Kamala Harris delivered what everyone billed |
| 0:10.0 | as the speech of her life, accepting the Democratic Party's nomination to be their candidate for president. |
| 0:18.9 | This was happening at the end of a Erasmataz-filled Democratic National Convention in Chicago. |
| 0:25.6 | And to mark this big news moment we're bringing you an episode of America's, |
| 0:30.9 | for temporarily sitting in the newscast feed. |
| 0:33.7 | Newscast. |
| 0:34.7 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:36.5 | On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, |
| 0:52.0 | I accept your nomination to be President of the United States of America. |
| 0:57.0 | Those bangs and popes you can hear that's not a backfiring car and don't worry we're not being shot at those are balloons being popped because we are in the main arena the Democratic National Convention |
| 1:12.2 | Kamala Harris has finished her speech. |
| 1:15.0 | Thousands of balloons fell from the ceiling and now |
| 1:18.2 | that the delegates have gone, the balloons are going bang. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah, the balloons are going bang and the delegates are absolutely delighted and they're all rushing away with their |
| 1:25.1 | posters that they were holding up during the speech. |
| 1:29.0 | No question about its success here, the way it fell here in the hall but of course it wasn't just |
| 1:33.4 | aimed here at the hall it was aimed at the whole nation at introducing Kamala Harris |
| 1:37.5 | to America in a way that persuades the American people that they should vote for her in November. |
| 1:43.8 | That's the question, did she manage that feat of communication? |
| 1:48.1 | Welcome to AmeriCast. |
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